Spokane, Wash., police are investigating claims that several players on the Southern California men's basketball team were involved in a brawl that sent four people were sent to a hospital on Sunday. No arrests have been made and the names of those involved in the incident have not been confirmed, according to the Spokesman-Review newspaper. The brawl occurred at a Spokane bar called The Wave. USC stayed in Spokane after falling to Washington State by 15 points on...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Ten Olympic figure skating gold medalists lined up side by side at the Izod Center to rehearse their introductions for a show called "Tribute to American Legends of the Ice. " At one end was two-time Olympic champion Dick Button, whose victories are the earliest. At the other was Evan Lysacek, the reigning men's Olympic champion. Between them stood seven Olympic silver medalists and eight of the other 11 U.S. men and women who have won Olympic...

Coach Bob McMillen's Chicago Rush rolled into Spokane, Wash., seeking a fifth straight Arena Football League victory Saturday night, but lost quarterback Russ Michna to injury and fell 63-60 to the Shock. Michna was 13-of-18 for 161 yards and four touchdowns in the first half. but did not play in the second half because of an undisclosed injury. Backup Dominic Randolph completed 11 of 17 passes for 113 yards and four touchdowns in the second half. Rush defensive...

(Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy from a military family died on Saturday while traveling on an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight to celebrate the Christmas holidays with relatives, officials said. The 9 a.m. PST flight had been in the air about half an hour after taking off from Seattle when the boy had a medical emergency, said Spokane, Washington's assistant fire chief, Brian Schaeffer. The plane was diverted to Spokane, where paramedics were unable to resuscitate...

The Evanston City Council voted unanimously Monday night to hire the city manager in Spokane, Roger D. Crum, as the north suburb's new city manager. The city had been negotiating with Crum for more than a month and last week agreed on salary--$105,000 a year--and other items, including a $100,000 interest-free housing loan. Crum, who is expected to assume Evanston's top administrative job July 8, replaces Eric Anderson, who left in October to become Des Moines' city manager.

By Alex Dobuzinskis June 8 (Reuters) - Postal workers in Spokane, Washington, on Saturday retrieved a wayward letter suspected of containing the deadly poison ricin that vanished for several weeks after it was sent from Washington state to a CIA address that does not receive mail, the FBI said. The envelope resembled four ricin-laced letters postmarked May 13 from Spokane that had addresses penned in red ink, FBI agent Frank Harrill, an agency...

The village Board of Health should consider imitating a Spokane ordinance when the board draws up a new law regulating smoking in public places, Thomas Oas, village director of health services, said Thursday night. Oas said the Spokane law requires restaurants to have signs in their windows saying whether smoking is allowed inside. The diamond-shaped decals are color coded: red for smoking, yellow for smoking in designated areas and green for smoke-free. The stickers are sold...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating a Texas man over threatening letters containing a deadly poison mailed to U.S. President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a law enforcement official said on Friday. The probe comes as FBI officials continue investigating a separate batch of ricin-laced letters sent earlier this month from Washington state to the president and four other targets, including the CIA and a military facility. At this...

Many Broadway plays are intensified and improved when they arrive at a Chicago storefront. Not so Martin McDonagh's "A Behanding in Spokane" - now in its Chicago premiere at the Profiles Theatre under the direction of Rick Snyder - which worked a great deal better when seen from farther away. There are several reasons for these circumstances. This isn't a typical work from the Anglo-Irish author of such zesty, character-driven fare as "The Beauty Queen of Leenane"...

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly poison ricin to a U.S. district judge in Spokane, Washington, the FBI said. Investigators have no information to suggest the Spokane envelope is related to a batch of ricin-tainted letters addressed to President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials and intercepted last month, an FBI spokeswoman in Seattle said. The suspect in...

Internet: 7:30 p.m. Friday; ustream.tv/ChicagoRush. Records: Rush 0-2; Talons 0-1. Fred Mitchell 's storyline: San Antonio was off last weekend after losing its opener 47-42 to San Jose. The Rush have allowed 139 points in the first two games at home after Sunday's 76-61 loss to Spokane, during which the Shock scored on every possession. The Talons won both games in 2012 against the Rush by a combined eight points.

Laurie McCutcheon Kraabel, 43, granddaughter of the late Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist John T. McCutcheon, died Thursday in Seattle. Mrs. Kraabel was born in Lake Forest and moved to Spokane during her childhood. She was the owner of McCutcheon Demographic Research in Seattle. Survivors include her husband, Seattle City Council President Paul Kraabel; her parents, Shaw and Nancy McCutcheon; a brother; and a sister. Services are pending.

A man who nearly avoided extradition from Illinois has pleaded guilty to second-degree child molestation in Spokane. Joseph Bernard Davis, 36, is scheduled for sentencing July 13. He entered the guilty plea Monday. Davis was originally charged with two counts of first-degree child molestation in the spring of 1993. He fled Washington state and was arrested Feb. 16 in Matteson. But police were forced to release Davis after a Spokane records clerk told them the arrest warrant was valid only in four...

The Supreme Court agreed to review a $1.3 million jury verdict against Texaco Inc. for illegal price discrimination against a dozen retail gasoline dealers in the Spokane, Wash., area. The jury found in 1985, and a federal appeals court in San Francisco agreed in March, 1988, that Texaco violated federal antitrust law by giving a discount on gasoline to two Spokane area independent wholesalers.